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As structured in the Constitution, the federal government consists of three components: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. While most focus primarily on the executive and legislative branches, the judiciary is just as important and casts an expanding shadow over policy debates. With its own set of institutions and opacity, most Americans have only a vague understanding of the legal system and its impact on the economy. As the size and scope of government has grown, the legal system has lost its moorings, with common law being overwhelmed by statutory law—drowning the economy in red tape.

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The Federal Circuit is unique among the courts of appeals as it is the only court that has its jurisdiction based wholly upon subject matter rather than geographic location. The Federal Circuit Court hears certain appeals from all of the United States District Courts, appeals from certain administrative agencies, and appeals arising under certain statutes.

In the White House’s Rose Garden on Wednesday, President Barack Obama named his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. The nominee does not matter in this debate. Really, the process is the issue. The Senate's role is not what the White House and those friendly to this president are making it out to be.

FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon sent a letter to Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday morning urging them not to consider any nominee to the Supreme Court until the American people express their views on the matter in November, through their choice of the next president.

FreedomWorks, the conservative activist group rooted in the tea party movement, is throwing its support behind Senate Republicans who are refusing to hold confirmation hearings for President Obama’s eventual nominee to the Supreme Court.

The White House is hilariously trying to downplay a speech made by Vice President Joe Biden in June 1992 when he served as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Biden urged then-President George H.W. Bush not to name a Supreme Court nominee in an election year.

Following the consensus reached by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to not hold hearings or a vote on any Supreme Court nominee named by President Obama, FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon commented:

Following the release of a video clip from June 1992 of then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), who now serves as vice president, urging his colleagues to delay hearings on a potential Supreme Court nominee during a presidential election year, FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon commented:

Following President Obama’s announcement that he intends to nominate a candidate to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant after the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon commented: